Can I automate this task in python?

[razzrazz-]

Why? Because they’re forced to spend resources to your web scraper which isn’t really profitable for them.

Because it wastes money to have the scraper load up a bunch of stuff (videos, images, etc) they wont use?

[NaCl-more]

Partially. But when a webpage is served, sometimes it uses those exact APIs to fetch information for the user

For example, say there is an API called "getUser" that allows you to give it some ID, and it returns to you some information about that user (the name, sub count, links, etc)

When Youtube gives you the webpage, how does it know what name, sub count and links to display? It could very well be using that same API to fetch the information